In article , David Looser
wrote:

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , David Looser
wrote:


Nobody is ditching CDs in favour of downloads because they think
downloads have better fidelity,

Well, it may be that *some* people are switching to downloads to get
96k/24bit (or similar) LPCM because they regard that as "better
fidelity" than CD. How often they would be right to think this is
another matter...
:-)

And how many downloads are avaiable in LPCM at all, let alone 96k/24bit?

No idea. Clearly non-zero, though. Or is your objection that FLAC, for
example, isn't LPCM when downloaded?

Erm... How many people did you mean by "nobody"? Or was your real point
that no-one (you know of) is discarding any CDs once they have a downloaded
'high rez' sic LPCM version? You don't actually say which (or all) CDs
you mean.

Or were you simply assuming a 'download' meant a low-rate mp3, and
forgetting the existence of high rate/depth LPCM downloads? That was the
impression you comment gave to me.

Slainte,

Jim

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